Bruce Lee‘s legend will live on forever. He was a Chinese martial artist, philosopher and film maker. He was also the founder of Jeet Kune Do, his own form of formless Kung Fu. As an inspiration to millions around the world, we certainly get a boost of motivation whenever we consider his great legacy. Without further ado, here are 10 of our favorite Bruce Lee quotes.

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times.”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

Sigmund Freud has become widely known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. His research in the field of psychology pioneered some of the most influential and controversial discoveries of the Twentieth Century. We’ve compiled a list featuring 21 of the best Sigmund Freud quotes:

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?'”

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”

“One is very crazy when in love.”

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”

“The madman is a dreamer awake.”

“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.”

“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”

“The sexual life of adult women is a “dark continent” for psychology.”

“Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.”

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

“Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.”

“If you want to live a life, get prepared for death.”

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Me, only have one ambition, y’ know? I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!